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Taylor Binns never planned to experience a simple delight of the world again: seeing it. The world was slowly going black, and time was running out. So he took his only options: a new procedure using stem cells. What we all take for granted became his gift: he could see again.

In a road-to-hell-is-paved-with-good-intentions story, Binns was doing mission work in Haiti, where he developed eye pain and blurring vision. No one knew what the problem was. Doctors were baffled while he slowly went legally blind during a two-year period.

In Binns' words, "Everything you could do before was being taken away, day by day, and it got worse and worse."

Finally, he was diagnosed with corneal limbal stem cell deficiency, which essentially meant his eyes were building scar tissue. Many things can cause the disease, including leaving contact lenses in for too long without disinfecting them. It also creates a problem: due to the nature of the disease, a corneal transplant is not an option.

What was an option was a procedure called a limbal stem cell transplant. Doctors in Toronto removed the scar tissue from his eyes and replaced it with stem cells from his sister's eyes. In a month, his vision was 20/40. It rose to 20/20 and 20/40.

Do not debate this topic with anyone who uses the phrase "Human fetus stem cells".

They're clearly not educated on the subject and are using rhetoric as their only weapon.

They're called embryonic stem cells, not 'human fetus stem cells'. As someone pointed out you can get these stem cells from umbilical chords. Who the **** is opposed to harvesting stem cells from an umbilical chord? Any of you fundies have a logical reason for that?

Would love for this to be a priority. The idea of helping so many people with so many different issues is beyond amazing.

The thought of not finding stem cell research, but continue to fund millions for worthless research like the millions that went to study the number of male prostitutes in Vietnam and their social settings makes my head want to explode.

Would love for this to be a priority. The idea of helping so many people with so many different issues is beyond amazing.

The thought of not finding stem cell research, but continue to fund millions for worthless research like the millions that went to study the number of male prostitutes in Vietnam and their social settings makes my head want to explode.

Or attempting to find out if the world is just a huge computer simulation ala The Matrix?